Violence Against Women and Criminal Justice in Africa: Volume I

Emma Charlene Lubaale is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of Rhodes University, South Africa.Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz is the programme manager of the Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

• SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION.- 1. Chapter One: Introduction (Emma Charlene Lubaale and Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz).- 2. Chapter Two: Violence against women in Africa: A human rights violation necessitating criminal accountability (Emma Charlene Lubaale and Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz).-SECTION TWO: LEGISLATION AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN ADDRESSING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN.- 3. Chapter three: Addressing gender-based violence epidemic through criminal justice: A case study of South Africa and the DRC (Mafuku Tholaine Matadi and Lizelle Ramaccio Calvino).- 4. Chapter four: Access to justice for survivors of violence: A case study of the girl child in Mauritius (Shivani Georgijevic and Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz).- 5. Chapter five: Police capacity building in dealing with domestic violence cases in South Africa: An entry point to women’s access to justice (Mothibi Kholofelo A and  Tirivangasi Happy Mathew).- 6. Chapter six: Access to Justicefor sexual violence against women: A socio-legal analysis of case reporting in Kenya (Nelly Warega).- SECTION THREE: LIMITATIONS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESPONSES TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN.- 7. Chapter seven: Sex trafficking as a form of gender-based violence against women: Lessons from South Africa and Uganda (Annette Lansink and Zahara Nampewo).- 8. Chapter eight: Criminal accountability for gender-based violence in North Africa: Beyond legal reforms (Yousra Abourabi and Emma Charlene Lubaale).- 9. Chapter nine: The right to social security as a prerequisite to access to justice for survivors of sexual violence in Zimbabwe (Untalimile Crystal Mokoena).- 10. Chapter ten: Roots Revisited: Barriers to justice for survivors of female genital mutilation in the Gambia (Raeesa Rajmohamed).- 11. Chapter eleven: Access to justice by victims of violence against women and girls in Tanzania: A social legal perspective (Cecilia Ngaiza and Asina A. Omari).